Use this page when you want 3rd grade place value worksheets in the next thirty seconds: choose how many problems you want, press print, and the answer key comes out on its own page behind the worksheet. You will see items like In 3,619, the digit in the tens place is □ and In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ on the printed page, with 1 and 7 waiting on the answer key so nobody has to redo the arithmetic.
‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.
Reading a number aloud correctly is half the skill. Children who say the digits one by one rather than naming the whole number usually cannot answer In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ without recounting.
This sheet uses four-digit numbers, which is wide enough to force real reading of the digits rather than pattern-matching on length — In 8,927, the digit in the hundreds place is □ is a fair example of it.
Place value is the idea that a digit's position decides its size, and a question like In 3,619, the digit in the tens place is □ checks that directly. A child who answers 1 without counting positions on their fingers has internalised the structure; one who counts has not, yet.
Because the sheet regenerates, the same place is not asked about twice in a row, so the child has to locate the position each time rather than remember where it was on the last sheet, which uses four-digit numbers, and a typical line looks like In 8,927, the digit in the hundreds place is □.
In US classrooms these 3rd grade place value worksheets are commonly aligned with the number and operations in base ten strand for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.
| # | Problem | Answer | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In 3,619, the digit in the tens place is □ | 1 | Watch for: mixing up tens and ones vocabulary |
| 2 | In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ | 7 | Check: confusing the digit with its value |
| 3 | In 5,304, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 3 | Look at: reading a comma as a decimal point |
| 4 | In 3,614, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 6 | Ask about: skipping the zero |
| 5 | In 8,927, the digit in the hundreds place is □ | 9 | Watch for: counting from the wrong end |
| 6 | In 2,166, the digit in the tens place is □ | 6 | Check: losing track in long numbers |
Work In 3,614, the digit in the hundreds place is □ out loud as a demonstration. It gives 6. Children who hear In 3,614, the digit in the hundreds place is □ reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.
The item In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ is worth doing slowly. The answer to In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ is 7, and the route to it is the route every other problem on this sheet takes — which is why the sheet has 20 of them rather than one.
Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.
The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — In 3,619, the digit in the tens place is □ is listed as 1, In 7,471, the digit in the tens place is □ as 7, and so on down the page.
Printing works the same on US Letter and A4, because the layout uses relative widths rather than fixed inches. Set margins to default and scaling to 100%, and all 20 problems fit.
The sheet is laid out to fit one page on both US Letter and A4. Leave the browser scaling at 100% and turn headers and footers off, and the 20 problems land inside the margins on either paper size.
One sheet of 3rd grade place value worksheets a day for two weeks will tell you more about where a 3rd grader actually stands than any single long assessment.
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Last updated: 2026-09-13